[ovirt-users] Re: Import to VMware
On 20. 5. 2021, at 22:58, Darin Schmidt
<darinschmidt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
Ive exported an OVA of a server we had made on OVIRT and Im trying to import it to
VMware. Its complaining that the ovf:format is incorrect.
OVF/OVA is not really a fixed standard, every project is using it differently and it’s not
compatible between each other that well. oVirt’s OVF are just for oVirt, same as VMware’s
OVFs are just for VMware. Some can be converted with more or less issues…
ovf:format="http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/qcow-image-format.html"
That link doesnt resolve to anywhere because it appears its now
http://people.gnome.org/~markmc/qcow-image-format.html
But I dont know whats supposed to go there nor have I been able to locate anything to
help solve this issue. All I really need is access to the files in the, what I assume is,
vdmk file that comes along with the ovf file, which mine is called:
154b3d77-d340-4d24-a448-66265c5fb613
So if anything, is there a way to open this vm disk so I can gain access to the files?
vmware cannot read qcow2 dissk, you need to convert them to vmdk
Even then it’s not necessarily going to work as oVirt and VMware are using different
virtual hardware, so if you want to boot from there it likely won’t work.
take a look at some conversion tools rather than direct import. E.g. for the other
direction from vmware to ovirt you can use virt-v2v
Thanks,
michal
Thanks
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